The scientific term you're looking for is not 'coincidence' but 'bullshit'. Every Uber ride carrying a passenger is a car drive not taken by that passenger. Because rideshare drivers do not have to loiter or deadhead like cabdrivers, there is no net contribution to traffic.
Not true. If a taxi is not available sometimes I might suck it up and walk, take a bus. cycle, a train, or not travel. Or I might drive.
Eg. if one Uber driver does 2 rides in a day before and after their 'day job', the $3.37 number would have that as "10 hours worked, 2 rides".
I highly doubt that is the calculation used. Especially as even gross, then assuming that those two trips total an hour, that would be a net hourly rate of $33.70, which is very unlikely to be the case. If that really is the net rate, then I am in the wrong business.
(Shareholders would come out ahead, too, since the real competition would actually encourage the pie to become bigger.)
The market size depends on demand and price, not competition. If competition resulted in lowered prices, but demand did not increase enough as a result, then the market would be smaller. If the three putative Windows versions were binary compatible, then there would be little increased demand from people buying more than one version, and the driver would be PC sales, but increased competition in the OS market probably wouldn't reduce PC cost enough to stimulate many more sales.
UPS has reimbursed us for the damage, so we have no grounds to sue. But they didn't fire the guy despite our videos clearly showing him tossing packages out of the back of the truck in an arc with an apogee more than 8 feet AGL.
8 feet? Yes, sue his ass for not really even trying.
Mostly GPS devices are fine now, but I have had one send me into a farmyard, the wrong way down a one way street, and try to send me down a river. My main criticism of many is they don't tell you which lane you need to be in until after the chance to be in it.
But then you still don't necessarily have causation, remember? So at the very least the first thing you need is a correlation, controlling for other factors or not.
No, you need a correlation after controlling for confounding factors, otherwise a valid correlation may be hidden in the noise.
Are you saying that it is reasonable to assume two things with no apparent correlation have a causal link given no other information? I doubt you are.
The issue is the word apparent. The correlation may be there, but not apparent, due to noisy data. If you control for other factors, then the actual correlation may be revealed. The issue I have is whether the correlation is apparent or not. I am saying absolutely nothing about causation at all.
You seem to be missing the point.. You said that government funding didn't help. I suggested that this was too simplistic a response and that often government funding was useful, but the detailed effects hard to determine, but that it may often help, which is often the case in more fundamental, less market-oriented R&D. In the examples you gave, youve neglected government funded research predating Edison and Tesla, the government funding given to aircraft design immediately after the Wrights, whose version of the aeroplane was not the form that emerged ten years later, and the development of mass production, which involved many government contracts, although the Fordian version is based on meat packing factories.
The government can not be a "VC firm", because none of the government officials are putting their own money on the line.
That's often true of VC firms too, though.
This allows them to spend the monies confiscated from you and me at gun point
That's not a view of taxation I subscribe to. I see it more as a social contract. If the contract is violated then, like a shareholder, I can vote to get rid of the board, although I might not be successful.
France alone spends $55 billion on defence per year (since the comment was about Paris), Russia spends $70 billion. The five biggest economies in Europe outspend Russia by a factor of 2.5:1.
Uh, hate to break it to you, but Europe depends utterly on the Americans to keep Putin's panzers out of Paris.
Whilst Putin might welcome a weaker USA and EU, I can't understand why you think he'd want to roll tanks into Paris. Not least because the French have nuclear weapons.
10% is the standard WTO tariff. If the USA wants to lower it then a trade deal with the EU would deal with that. The USA not wishing to impose the WTO tariff is up to it. Note that for light trucks the USA imposes a 25% duty on imports from the EU, due to a war in the 1960s over chicken. A 25% duty won't encourage the EU to reduce its duty.
It's very unlikely that Volkswagen, etc., would set up factories in the USA to make cars for the European market, as they've already set up large factories in the cheaper parts of Europe where costs are much lower, even before import duties, than the USA, and in a market where there is a free-trade zone (the EU). And that's even before considering the issues of transport of the cars to a port, across an ocean, to a port, and onwards. To get a consignment of cars from Poland to France you just put them on a truck and drive them there.
The article that you refer to does not seem to be well thought out.
When your police are lazy and corrupt, and lie about crime statistics,
Different places have different methodologies and definitions. There are crimes that in the UK count as serious, violent crimes, and don't count as such in the USA. E.g. in the UK throwing a punch and missing counts as a violent crime. In the article you mention, it's about dealing with funding reductions, not corruption or lying. Where you get the idea that crime isn't being recorded, though, I'm not sure. 'Crossing off' does not mean not being recorded, just not being investigated.
I don't like to carry a huge phone with me, as it's not 1990 any longer, and so it has a relatively small screen compared to a tablet.
My mother has a smart phone, but uses her tablet to play solitaire, as she can see it more easily. She rarely uses her desktop PC, mostly just if she needs to print something.
I've seen many more use cases: commuters on mass transport, my mother, or people in or round the swimming pool (with a waterproof case), or just people who don't want to have something as large format as a laptop for casual use.
Sometimes multiple options are good (and Windows 10 has Edge and IE), but I'd agree that sometimes it can lead to a dilution of effort. The irony is, that for all those that suggest that Linux is 'communist,' it's a market place of ideas more closely attuned to capitalism, in terms of the non-kernel elements of a distribution. The inner workings of a company are more like Five Year Plans. I am not sure how you'd want to compare Linux kernel development to an economic or political system.
The demand seems to be for people with specific tool set knowledge. I was working in AI until 4 years ago, after 20 years in the business, involved in developing some significant technologies for FTSE 100 businesses, and either the demand isn't that high, except for specific frameworks, or I sell myself very badly. Maybe both.
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The scientific term you're looking for is not 'coincidence' but 'bullshit'. Every Uber ride carrying a passenger is a car drive not taken by that passenger. Because rideshare drivers do not have to loiter or deadhead like cabdrivers, there is no net contribution to traffic.
Not true. If a taxi is not available sometimes I might suck it up and walk, take a bus. cycle, a train, or not travel. Or I might drive.
Eg. if one Uber driver does 2 rides in a day before and after their 'day job', the $3.37 number would have that as "10 hours worked, 2 rides".
I highly doubt that is the calculation used. Especially as even gross, then assuming that those two trips total an hour, that would be a net hourly rate of $33.70, which is very unlikely to be the case. If that really is the net rate, then I am in the wrong business.
The critical factor would be whether you are a legally contractor or an employee. The definition varies between countries.
My impression has been that many are 'very bad at math' and are burning their long term asset (remaining mileage on their car) for dollars.
If you don't have other assets, and few other sources of income, and you have bills you must pay, it can be perfectly good math.
I met one person working in this area who was doing it because they liked to drive, and it subsidised their passion.
(Shareholders would come out ahead, too, since the real competition would actually encourage the pie to become bigger.)
The market size depends on demand and price, not competition. If competition resulted in lowered prices, but demand did not increase enough as a result, then the market would be smaller. If the three putative Windows versions were binary compatible, then there would be little increased demand from people buying more than one version, and the driver would be PC sales, but increased competition in the OS market probably wouldn't reduce PC cost enough to stimulate many more sales.
Since the constitution mandates that the government provide a service, won't it need an amendment for Amazon to purchase it?
UPS has reimbursed us for the damage, so we have no grounds to sue. But they didn't fire the guy despite our videos clearly showing him tossing packages out of the back of the truck in an arc with an apogee more than 8 feet AGL.
8 feet? Yes, sue his ass for not really even trying.
Yes, this is not using email to an SMS gateway. That seems to be what you are missing.
It's using a gateway, it's just that the gateway is your phone.
I am European and live in Europe. Your characterisation of Europe as a sea of hate for the USA is very wrong.
People in Europe, overall, view the USA favourably, and want it engaged in important international bodies.
Mostly GPS devices are fine now, but I have had one send me into a farmyard, the wrong way down a one way street, and try to send me down a river. My main criticism of many is they don't tell you which lane you need to be in until after the chance to be in it.
No, your wrong.
Remind me to go and tell the people I've met doing such research that apparently they are mistaken and they aren't actually doing it.
I hear Sauron is a tough boss...
But then you still don't necessarily have causation, remember? So at the very least the first thing you need is a correlation, controlling for other factors or not.
No, you need a correlation after controlling for confounding factors, otherwise a valid correlation may be hidden in the noise.
Are you saying that it is reasonable to assume two things with no apparent correlation have a causal link given no other information? I doubt you are.
The issue is the word apparent. The correlation may be there, but not apparent, due to noisy data. If you control for other factors, then the actual correlation may be revealed. The issue I have is whether the correlation is apparent or not. I am saying absolutely nothing about causation at all.
You seem to be missing the point.. You said that government funding didn't help. I suggested that this was too simplistic a response and that often government funding was useful, but the detailed effects hard to determine, but that it may often help, which is often the case in more fundamental, less market-oriented R&D. In the examples you gave, youve neglected government funded research predating Edison and Tesla, the government funding given to aircraft design immediately after the Wrights, whose version of the aeroplane was not the form that emerged ten years later, and the development of mass production, which involved many government contracts, although the Fordian version is based on meat packing factories.
The government can not be a "VC firm", because none of the government officials are putting their own money on the line.
That's often true of VC firms too, though.
This allows them to spend the monies confiscated from you and me at gun point
That's not a view of taxation I subscribe to. I see it more as a social contract. If the contract is violated then, like a shareholder, I can vote to get rid of the board, although I might not be successful.
France alone spends $55 billion on defence per year (since the comment was about Paris), Russia spends $70 billion. The five biggest economies in Europe outspend Russia by a factor of 2.5:1.
Uh, hate to break it to you, but Europe depends utterly on the Americans to keep Putin's panzers out of Paris.
Whilst Putin might welcome a weaker USA and EU, I can't understand why you think he'd want to roll tanks into Paris. Not least because the French have nuclear weapons.
10% is the standard WTO tariff. If the USA wants to lower it then a trade deal with the EU would deal with that. The USA not wishing to impose the WTO tariff is up to it. Note that for light trucks the USA imposes a 25% duty on imports from the EU, due to a war in the 1960s over chicken. A 25% duty won't encourage the EU to reduce its duty.
It's very unlikely that Volkswagen, etc., would set up factories in the USA to make cars for the European market, as they've already set up large factories in the cheaper parts of Europe where costs are much lower, even before import duties, than the USA, and in a market where there is a free-trade zone (the EU). And that's even before considering the issues of transport of the cars to a port, across an ocean, to a port, and onwards. To get a consignment of cars from Poland to France you just put them on a truck and drive them there.
The article that you refer to does not seem to be well thought out.
The first case is pretty exceptional.
When your police are lazy and corrupt, and lie about crime statistics,
Different places have different methodologies and definitions. There are crimes that in the UK count as serious, violent crimes, and don't count as such in the USA. E.g. in the UK throwing a punch and missing counts as a violent crime. In the article you mention, it's about dealing with funding reductions, not corruption or lying. Where you get the idea that crime isn't being recorded, though, I'm not sure. 'Crossing off' does not mean not being recorded, just not being investigated.
Like Dickie Bird, or Dickie Attenborough?
I don't like to carry a huge phone with me, as it's not 1990 any longer, and so it has a relatively small screen compared to a tablet.
My mother has a smart phone, but uses her tablet to play solitaire, as she can see it more easily. She rarely uses her desktop PC, mostly just if she needs to print something.
I've seen many more use cases: commuters on mass transport, my mother, or people in or round the swimming pool (with a waterproof case), or just people who don't want to have something as large format as a laptop for casual use.
Sometimes multiple options are good (and Windows 10 has Edge and IE), but I'd agree that sometimes it can lead to a dilution of effort. The irony is, that for all those that suggest that Linux is 'communist,' it's a market place of ideas more closely attuned to capitalism, in terms of the non-kernel elements of a distribution. The inner workings of a company are more like Five Year Plans. I am not sure how you'd want to compare Linux kernel development to an economic or political system.
The demand seems to be for people with specific tool set knowledge. I was working in AI until 4 years ago, after 20 years in the business, involved in developing some significant technologies for FTSE 100 businesses, and either the demand isn't that high, except for specific frameworks, or I sell myself very badly. Maybe both.
One per saw? One would speculate each one is serious, resulting in that person never wanting to use it again, or not being able to!